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1. I am never the first to speak but I am always the last to be heard. Who am I?

2. Walking home one day, you take a short cut along the train tracks. The tracks cross a narrow bridge over a deep gorge. At the point you are 3/8 of the way across the bridge, you hear the train whistle somewhere behind you. You charge across the bridge, and jump off the track as the train is about to run you down. As it happens, if you had gone the other way, you would have reached safety just before being run over as well. If you can run ten miles per hour, how fast is the train moving?

3. Johnny's mother had four children. The first was April, the second was May, and the third was June. What was the name of her fourth child?

4. How can you distribute three apples to two fathers and their two sons, giving a whole apple to each.

5. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?

6. What can be driven, but has no wheels, and can be sliced and remain whole?

7. With pointed fangs it sits in wait,
With piercing force its doles out fate,
Over bloodless victims proclaiming its might,
Eternally joining in a single bite.

What am I?

8. Two girls have the same parents and were born at the same hour of the same day of the same month, but they are not twins. How can this be possible?

9. There is a certain family with both girl and boy children. Each of the boys has the same number of brothers as he has sisters. Each of the girls has twice as many brothers as she has sisters. How many boys and girls are there in this family?


10. Which of the following words don't belong in the group and why? CORSET, COSTER, SECTOR, ESCORT, COURTS